New York: D. Appleton, 1877. 8vo. [i], viii, 352 pp., 10 pages publisher's advertisements. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, ONLY ISSUE. With 15 wood-engraved figures in the text. With a list of Darwin's works facing the title-page and 10 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original publisher's red cloth, minor tear... More

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1877. 8vo. [i], viii, 482, 8, [4] pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With a list of Darwin's works facing the title-page and 12 pages of the publisher's advertisements at the end. Original publisher's red cloth. The only issue of the first American edition, published only... More

London: John Murray, 1876. 8vo. viii, 482 pp. With 109 tables and 1 diagram; errata slip tipped in. Original green cloth; some very minor soiling, otherwise a very good copy with the ownership inscription of Charles Crompton, possibly the English barrister and Member of Parliament for Leek in Stafordshire and... More

London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo. x, 592, 32 pp., including the publisher's advertisements dated May, 1878. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With half-title and list of works by the author on verso; text illustrations. Original green cloth, booklabel removed from spine and slight wear on front cover, interior excellent; a fine... More

London: John Murray, 1868. Two volumes. 8vo. viii, 411, [1]; viii, 486 pp., plus 32-pages of publisher's advertisements at the back of the first volume dated April, 1867, a. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With several text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth, a few small bumps, minor wear to boards; approximately... More

[England]: 4 October, 1832. Two pages. Letter written in brown ink on a folded sheet, the back leaf containing an address in manuscript with a black wax seal (a dragon with a D). The stamp has been cut from the letter without affecting the text. Letter by Francis Darwin, announcing... More

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer and Williams and Norgate, June 3, 1881. 8vo. 419-473 pp. FIRST PRINTING. With 3 plates and 17 woodcuts in text. Original blue printed wrappers, some minor chipping, otherwise a very good unopened copy. FIRST PRINTING of this extensive article on the phototropism of plants... More

Munich: Ernst Reinhardt, 1905. 8vo. viii, 335 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, faded. Bookplate of Otto Vernon Darbishire, plus his signature dated 1906 and the signature of E. Rimin dated 1939. First edition of Pauly's most important work which represented the sum of his efforts over thirty years in evolutionary... More

London: Andrew Melrose, 1909. 8vo. xii, 245, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece photograph. Original cloth. Signature of Lindsay dated April, 1910. First edition. Thomson, a Scotch biologist, brings Darwin, his work and the issues that have arisen based on his theory of evolution, up to date. Thomson provides a foundation... More

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1937. 8vo. xiii, [i], 351 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Photos pasted inside. Bookplate of Marshall Laird. First edition. A beautifully written biography from which emerges a tragic-romantic figure of Darwin: "Darwin delivered his generation from the Egypt of an oppressive anthropomorphic theology... More

Paris: E. Thunot, 1849. 8vo. 15 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding plate. Marbled boards with the original front wrapper bound in bearing the author's presentation inscription. Dr. Herbert M. Evans's bookplate. Presentation copy of the first edition of this work by Daubrée, French geologist and mining engineer, containing an... More

London: Longman, 1813. 4to. viii, 323, lxiii pp., including appendix and index. FIRST EDITION. With 10 engraved plates, 1 folding, and numerous tables throughout text. Contemporary calf tooled in blind and gilt; a fine copy from the library of the Earl of Ilchester, with his bookplate on the front paste-down... More

Paris: Flammarion, 1909. 8vo. [iv], 371, 8 pp. (publisher's catalogue). FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, uncut. Ownership signature on the half-title. First edition of the comprehensive overview of evolution. The authors first discuss earlier notions in the development of the theory, citing Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Saint-Hilaire, and others. Darwin is... More

Paris: P. Didot L’aine, 1801. 8vo. xxxi, [i], 166 pp., including half-title. With the finely engraved frontispiece by Choffard after Monciau. Contemporary calf; a fine wide-margined copy from the library of (Lord)? Minto with his bookplate and the label of Jerry Stannard. A new edition, considerably augmented from the original... More

Paris: Allais, Libraire, 1806. 8vo. [ii], vi-xxxii, [ii], 344, [1] pp., including half-title and errata (lacking first half-title). With 197 text tables. Original w. FIRST EDITION. With 197 text tables. Original wrappers, title in ink on spine; a fine uncut copy. First edition of a valuable treatise by Duméril (1774-1860)... More

Paris: F.G. Levrault, 1812. 8vo. xii, 272 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 60 engraved plates made after drawings by Pretre. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, head of spine worn and the covers a bit faded; interior excellent. First edition of the author's major work on the classification of insects, with the... More

Paris: From Academie des sciences...Vol. IX, 1846, Sept. 5, 1842. 4to. pp. [333]-432, with 4 coloured plates. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers; some marginal browning. First edition of the ground-breaking monograph on the teeth of the shrew, published in book form two years later. The plates are illustrations of microscopic views of... More